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ELA Drills, Beginner: Parts of Speech 2. Fill in the blank with the correct future tense of the word "ring."
Transcript
- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by bells [Man rings a large bell]
- 00:06
okay here's our question fill in the blank with the correct future tense of
- 00:10
the word ring the bell blank tomorrow at five o'clock sharp and here are our
- 00:15
potential answers.... all right well none of these ringing any
- 00:19
bells for you people there well try saying the sentence aloud with each of [Boy reads sentence aloud]
Full Transcript
- 00:23
the options filled into the blank which one rings true, all right we'll lay off the
- 00:28
ring jokes there.... Alrighty let's check out the answer
- 00:30
starting with D but guess what we don't even have to fill in the blank here
- 00:33
that's because rung is in the past tense and as any good a historian time
- 00:37
traveler or Time Lord knows the past is the exact opposite of the future but
- 00:42
just for fun the bell rung tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp true to our expectations [Man rings bell in a park]
- 00:47
the sentence sounds like garbage so D is out what about C nope had rung is also
- 00:52
past tense we doubt very much the past not being the future has changed in the
- 00:57
last 30 seconds though it looks like we're in for more trouble the bell had
- 01:00
rung tomorrow at 5 o'clock and another garbage sentence another option down how
- 01:04
that B well rings isn't past tense but it isn't future either its the present I
- 01:09
hope you don't need to ask any historians or the doctor whether the [Man writes present = future on board]
- 01:11
present is the future it was pretty obvious and anyway they're busy doing
- 01:15
history stuff or saving the world or wearing shades or something but let's
- 01:19
give it a whirl just in case the bell rings tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp
- 01:23
well we end up with a sentence that sounds better than last two but still
- 01:27
not quite right and another one bites the dust what about A the bell will ring
- 01:31
tomorrow at 5 o'clock sharp, well, ding ding ding sounds like our answer why
- 01:36
because will ring is the future tense we've been looking for so we have our [Men walk into police box]
- 01:40
answer A and look at that we did it without the doctor's help.. We're
- 01:45
objecting to a new companion, we can take a ride in the TARDIS any day of the
- 01:48
week
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